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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GP
113TH CONGRESS
2d Session
SENATE
Calendar No. 299
REPORT
113-136
TO MAKE A TECHNICAL
BIEN PRESERVATION
OTHER PURPOSES
AMENDMENT TO THE T'UF SHUR
TRUST AREA ACT, AND FOR
JANUARY 28, 2014.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. CANTWELL, from the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 611]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 611) to make a technical amendment to the T'uf Shur Bien
Preservation Trust Area Act, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill (as amend-
ed) do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 611 amends the 2003 Act entitled 'T'uf Shur Bien Preservation
Trust Area Act' (P.L. 108-7), in order to resolve discrepancies in-
volving the transfer of the specified lands related to the Sandia
Pueblo of New Mexico land claim settlement.
BACKGROUND
The T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act settled the
Pueblo of Sandia's claim to the west face of Sandia Mountain, New
Mexico. As part of the land settlement, the Act directed the U.S.
Forest Service to prepare and offer a land exchange of approxi-
mately 700 acres of Forest Service land to the Pueblo, with title re-
strictions that the land transferred to the Pueblo would remain in
its natural state and not subject to any commercial development.
The Pueblo was to provide compensation to the Forest Service for
the 700-acre land transfer.
Since the passage of the Act, the Forest Service has argued that
the land to be transferred to the Pueblo should be appraised with-
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